Hello, I am new to the group and have done lots of reading but am left with a couple of basic questions I need answered quickly. I am expecting 3 pkgs. next...
TBH hives don't need "bee-space" above the top-bars - the top-bars completely enclose the cavity so a bee-space would be useless anyway. I live in Texas so I...
With regard to entrances, I recently changed my entrance to the middle so that the brood chamber would be able to expand in two directions. This is the first...
Hives naturally swarm. Less is best management will result in swarming regardless of the entrance position because that's how hives naturally propagate....
I'm new to beekeeping. I have a TBH and I installed package bees with queen on 4/18/08. Everything was going well. I was moving the follower board and...
Can you slip a camera in there and get a pic? That sounds like some very convoluted comb. Is it crossing multiple top-bars? Be well, Mike -- Zone 8, Texas ...
And since a single mistake usually propagates for each comb built, I wonder if cutting a piece of straight small-cell foundation to shape, gluing it to a...
Hello everyone, I just had shipped two packages of bees from a local bee breeder/honey producer. They were shipped with their own queens (not new queens) so ...
... I would feed them until they refused it. Let them have the CHOs to build comb and get off to a good start. If the forage is poor, then the incoming carbs...
For the less is more approach, you might want to look into a Warre-style hive. It's a vertically-oriented TBH, designed to be opened twice a year (barring you...
The only problem I have with the Warre hive is that to add more supers, you add them to the bottom, meaning you have to lift the whole hive. Of course, I'm...
Let me amend that - my Long Lang may very well have altered Dadant frames. I work at a hardware store so I have the luxury to browse thru our wood and I found...
... with a couple of basic questions I need answered quickly. I am expecting 3 pkgs. next week and I am putting the final touches on my HTBhives. Do you need...
My top-bar has a pair of 3x4" square wood bars going the length of the hive on top of the hive and on top of that I have a sheet of solarboard plywood. Very...
Hi, all - I'd like to hear a sound-off from people who have got observation windows in the sides of their top-bar hives. 1) What are the windows made of?...
Hi Christy, I have an observation window, 4" by 24" from recycled glass. I made a wood cover held in place by toggles. It sure is fun to watch them in there, I...
Dear Members I was sent this fantastic 100% free link by a friend, so I thought I would share it with the group...enjoy! Collect over 250 free books by...
Rebecca Hardy, Remove Top-Hive from your list. This is a group of beekeepers and we do not want to receive spam that will add our list to more spam lists. ...
It would be more effective to just remove the spammer from our list. Permanently. All new members on my lists are moderated until it's determined that they are...
... 'Tis done. It merely takes one of us opening up our email to see it - I don't think Ping or I am on 24/7. Having said that we moderate people getting on...
Got this from the Biobee's forum: http://origin.insidebayarea.com/ci_9465470 More of a warm-n-fuzzy article, but a neat read nonetheless... Be well, Mike -- ...
... windows in the sides of their top-bar hives. Let me poke a little fun here, and claim prejudice... (I've spoken w Cristy and she's nice, so remember this...
I cut out my second colony of honeybees this past weekend. It was from a framed well-cover and a hive that had been there for 5 years. The owner had ordered an...
When they stop eating the feed is the answer I see most often. I don't normally feed my bees, depending on the abundant wildflowers to do that for me instead. ...
Hi all! We have been reading this list for a few weeks now and we appreciate all the ideas and thoughts. :) We have just finished transferring 2 nucs of...
Lack experience here, but it seems ther are obvious answers. If you feel the extra scraps of brood comb aren't needed or desireable, toss them. You might spray...
So you transferred out of the frames by cutting and tying? I would love to see pix of the process, were you able to take any? -- Christy Hemenway GOLD STAR...
Thanks for the replies. We are in southern Maine and are completely new to beekeeping (what a way to dive in!). We're in a rural area, so we don't think this...
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